Participatory 3D Modelling for Sagarmatha National Park: Feasibility Report

Participatory 3D-Modelling (P3DM) is a relatively new communicative facilitation method conceived to support collaborative processes related mainly to resource use and tenure and aimed at facilitating grassroots participation in problem analysis and decision-making. P3DM integrates people’s knowledge and spatial information to produce stand-alone scale relief models that have proved to be user-friendly and relatively accurate data storage and analysis devices and at the same time excellent communication media. This paper assesses the feasibility of a P3DM exercise in Sagarmatha National Park (Nepal). Based on this paper a P3DM workshop was successfully carried out by ICIMOD and CESVI within the framework of the HKKH Partnership Project. The exercise took place at the park entrance to Sagarmatha National Park at Monjo between 2nd and 14th of December.